35: Chapter 35 The military supervisor... is he dead?

Tang Xiaowu and Chen Shanzhi followed the direction of his finger.

The next moment, their pupils constricted, and a chill shot straight up their spines to the tops of their heads!

There, beside the large bluestone.

Wang Yuanhua, dressed in his Great Zhou Supervising Officer official robes, was lying motionless on the ground.

That Great Zhou Supervising Officer robe now looked like a shriveled skin sac, draped loosely over a skeleton.

However, beneath those wide official robes, there was not a shred of flesh or blood.

There was only a stark white, clean skeleton!

The skeleton maintained an extremely twisted posture.

The hand bones were tightly gripping the collar of the official robe, and the feet were locked together.

It was as if it had suffered immense pain before death.

The few of them exchanged glances, all seeing horror in each other's eyes.

The air seemed to freeze at that moment.

"Sang Ji!"

Tang Xiaowu looked at the stark white skeleton on the ground.

She turned around abruptly, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief and anger:

"What exactly are you doing? How dare you kill him?"

"This... how is this possible?"

Sang Ji's eyes widened, staring at the white bones on the ground as if he had seen a ghost, his speech stuttering:

"He... how did he die? This... this wasn't me!"

He pointed at the skeleton on the ground, his finger trembling violently:

"Before I left, I just left him here in the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes, but I never thought about killing him."

Sang Ji turned to look at Tang Xiaowu, his eyes full of panic:

"A-Man, you know my character; you have to believe me.

Although I have teased him, I would never dare to ruin the clan's important affairs by killing him!"

Tang Xiaowu's willow-leaf brows furrowed tightly. Looking at the white bones on the ground, she felt a chill rise from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head.

The Supervising Officer, who was the prime suspect, just died like this?

Then wouldn't the previous deductions made by her and Chen Shanzhi have been wrong all along?

Moreover, according to the memories in her mind, although Sang Ji was reckless and impulsive,

he definitely wouldn't do something so reckless and thoughtless.

Then who exactly killed the Supervising Officer?

Also, she believed that the Supervising Officer was not killed by Sang Ji, but would that matter?

Although this Wang Yuanhua was a fool, he was still the Supervising Officer of Great Zhou and represented the face of Great Zhou.

Now that he had died in the Witch Clan, and in such a miserable state,

if this were to get out, the Great Zhou Emperor would be furious.

And if he sent troops south, the Witch Clan would truly be finished!

Most importantly, if this were really the case, then the course of events inside this Secret Realm

would be completely different from reality.

By then, who knows what terrifying changes this Secret Realm would undergo.

"Don't panic."

Just then, a large, warm hand suddenly pressed onto Tang Xiaowu's fragrant shoulder and patted it gently.

Chen Shanzhi had walked up behind her at some point, his body half-pressed against her back, and said in a deep voice:

"This person certainly wasn't killed by Sang Ji."

Seemingly guessing what Tang Xiaowu was thinking, Chen Shanzhi continued:

"With me here on the Great Zhou side, the situation where Great Zhou sends troops against the Witch Clan will not happen."

Tang Xiaowu felt the heat of the man's skin pressed against her back, and her body couldn't help but stiffen.

But upon hearing Chen Shanzhi's steady tone and what he said,

her originally panicked mind inexplicably calmed down a bit.

Yet her body still subconsciously wanted to pull away.

But the movement was weak and powerless, looking more like she was acting coquettishly in Chen Shanzhi's embrace.

"How... how do you know?" Tang Xiaowu bit her lip and asked in a low voice.

Chen Shanzhi let go, walked to the white skeleton, squatted down, and began to investigate.

He extended his finger and tapped the white bones twice.

"Tap, tap."

The sound was dull, like knocking on rotten wood.

"If he had died from poison, the bones should be black. If he had been gnawed on by Gu insects, there would definitely be tooth marks on the bones."

Chen Shanzhi stood up, brushed the dust off his hands, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes:

"But these bones are white as jade, yet extremely brittle.

This feels more like someone used an extremely tyrannical evil art to instantly drain all his essence, energy, and flesh."

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Sang Ji, who was still dazed, and sneered:

"Although the Supervising Officer is a fool, he still has the strength of the Life Fire Realm.

Based on our previous exchanges, I don't think he has the strength to do this."

Upon hearing this, Sang Ji wanted to get angry, but then he thought that although these words were harsh, they were actually helping him clear his name.

He flushed red, and in the end, could only snort coldly and turn his head away.

Just at this moment.

"Boom!"

A massive Aura erupted from the valley entrance, sweeping over like a mountain torrent and tsunami.

"You insolent brat, how dare you!"

A furious shout rang through the heavens, making the valley hum and vibrate.

Immediately after, several sounds of breaking through the air rang out.

A burly man wearing the armor of a Great Zhou deputy general was seen rushing to the front with a face full of grief and indignation.

This person was a trusted aide of the Supervising Officer, named Li Hu.

Behind him, the Witch Clan Chief Miao Yunzhan and that Divine Shaman, who was always wrapped in a black robe, arrived together.

As soon as Li Hu landed, his gaze instantly locked onto the white bones and the official robe on the ground.

"My Lord!"

He let out a sorrowful cry and knelt with a thud in front of the white bones.

One hand trembled as he picked up the token representing the Supervising Officer's status.

Subsequently, he turned his head abruptly.

His eyes were blood-red, staring fixedly at Sang Ji, his voice trembling as he spoke:

"It was you! It was you who killed the Supervising Officer!"

"I didn't!" Sang Ji retorted, stiffening his neck.

"You didn't?"

Li Hu pulled a jade pendant that had shattered into several pieces from his bosom, held it above his head, and roared sternly:

"This is the Life Slip of the Supervising Officer! Just now, the Life Slip shattered!"

"I saw with my own eyes that it was you who brought the Supervising Officer in this direction!"

"Now that the Supervising Officer has died miserably here, his body is not yet cold, and you still dare to quibble?"

Miao Yunzhan walked up, looked at the white bones on the ground, and his dignified face was now covered in dark clouds.

He turned to look at Sang Ji, his tiger-like eyes wide open, and a terrifying pressure instantly erupted:

"Sang Ji, what exactly is going on?"

"I... Clan Chief, I..."

Under Miao Yunzhan's pressure, Sang Ji's legs went weak with fear, and he knelt on the ground with a "thud":

"Clan Chief, it really wasn't me who killed him!"

"I brought him to this Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes just to scare him... He was fine when I left..."

"You still dare to quibble!"

Li Hu stood up abruptly, drew the long saber from his waist, pointed the tip directly at Miao Yunzhan, and roared hysterically:

"Clan Chief Miao, is this your Witch Clan's way of treating guests?

Is this your so-called sincerity for an alliance?"

"You lured our Great Zhou Supervising Officer into this nest of poisonous insects and killed him with such cruel means!"

"Clan Chief Miao, if there is no explanation for this matter, my Great Zhou iron cavalry will surely trample your Hundred Thousand Mountains flat!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of all the Witch Clan members present changed.

Those guards all tightened their grip on their weapons, glaring fiercely at Li Hu.

The atmosphere instantly became tense, as if a single spark would immediately ignite a bloody battle.

Miao Yunzhan's expression was extremely ugly.

As the Witch Clan Chief, his strength was incomparably greater than Li Hu's.

In normal times, he could have destroyed this person with a single finger.

But at this moment, facing this person's aggressive words, he dared not refute.

Because he knew that Great Zhou had means of long-distance communication; if this matter were not handled well,

it wouldn't be long before Great Zhou would truly attack.

The current situation of the Witch Clan could not afford such consequences.

He also hadn't expected that just as the alliance talks were beginning, the Great Zhou Supervising Officer would die on his own territory.

And the suspect was actually the crucial Successor of the Divine Oracle from his own Witch Clan!

Just at this tense moment, a clear voice suddenly came:

"General Li, please calm down. Something is not right about this matter."